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RFC 3234
Title: Middleboxes: Taxonomy and Issues
Author(s): B. Carpenter, S. Brim
Status: Informational
Date: February 2002
Mailbox: brian@hursley.ibm.com, sbrim@cisco.com
Pages: 27
Characters: 62329
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-carpenter-midtax-03.txt
URL: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3234.txt
This document is intended as part of an IETF discussion about
"middleboxes" - defined as any intermediary box performing functions
apart from normal, standard functions of an IP router on the data
path between a source host and destination host. This document
establishes a catalogue or taxonomy of middleboxes, cites previous
and current IETF work concerning middleboxes, and attempts to
identify some preliminary conclusions. It does not, however, claim to
be definitive.
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